Salve



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

MARTHA E. AUSTIN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

SALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,500, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed December 9, 1887.

10 burns, consists of the following ingredients,

combined in about equal proportions, viz: rattlesnakes master, (Agave Virgiizica,)frogs oil, white rosin from the yellow pine, hogs lard, and beeswax.

I; i usually make one pint of the compound at a time with the above ingredients, in five equal parts, and my method of preparing it is as follows: I first. take the herb A gave Virgi'rrica, commonly known as Rattlesnakels master,

:0 which grows sparsely on the gulf coast of America and elsewhere, and make a strong decoction thereof. To this decoction I add the frog-oil, which is obtained by heat, as other Serial No. 257,451. (No specimens.)

animal oils are obtained, and also add the other ingredients above named, all in about equal proportions, and boil the whole mass in a porcelain-lined or other suitable vessel until the same assumes a proper consistence to be strained through a line muslin cloth which having. been done, produces my composition k in the form ofa rich yellow salve that-may be applied to theparts affected as ordinary salves are applied.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hereindescribed composition 'of mat ter to be used as a salve, consisting of rattle snakes master, (Agave Virginicm) frogs oil,

white rosin, hogs lard, and beeswax, in or 0 about the proportions specified.

MARTHA E. AUSTIN.

\Vitnesses:

G. M. BEAR, J. R. EDGnT'r. 

